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Hello, I'm a Linux newb (6 weeks now) and out of all the distros I have tried I love Linux Mint the most...I have AWN dock installed and I love it! It's great but for some reason the extras plugins aren't included...Now I am VERY "terminally challenged" as it were but I put on a brave face and tried to install the tar.gz of the extras plugins...I was doing halfway alright but once I got to the ./configure part..I got an error saying something about no compiler or an error with the compiler...Okay, so I tried another way and converted the tar.gz file into a deb package using Alien and "installed" it (oddly it put it in its own / instead of my home folder but this could be what it was supposed to do i don't know..)but no matter what I couldn't seem to do anything with them from the AWN manager...then for a third strikeout, I tried to install the ubuntu (?) repo that contained the darn extras plugins and screwed that up somehow (while following the directions exactly I thought) and from then on got an error message every time I opened Synaptic....geez I know, I am hopeless but I keep trying anyway..lol..I am seriously wishing this was on repo!...or mintinstall...anything UGH!!!! *pulling my hair out*please. help.

By the looks of it, it is Compiz stuff that no longer is needed, while I have never used AWN, I am not sure how those repos work, but I thought Compiz was essential for AWN to work?And for the compiling issues you had, try to install build-essentials:

By the looks of it, it is Compiz stuff that no longer is needed, while I have never used AWN, I am not sure how those repos work, but I thought Compiz was essential for AWN to work?And for the compiling issues you had, try to install build-essentials:

I appreciate your help as I see how busy you are on here; sorry for not getting back to you...I borked my distro again! lol...so I think I am just going to lay off the 'tweaking' that has been getting me into trouble lol...Thanks

Ok Bro so hear is the quick and easy of getting the install to work and the plugins. First open up synaptic, and remove everything you did pertianing to AWN

now install everything you see hear, and wham, you should be able to open the mint menu scroll to accessories, and There should be an AWN icon. open it.and then when the bar opens right click on it and go to preferences. and then when the new dialogue window opens click in the left panel where it says applets, and there should be a library full of them.

Even if you have some of these installed, either remove what you have or click on on reinstall, so that the dependencies are met per file. when its all done make sureyou click mint update.